Rejoinder Quotes

#1. This fact provides a rebuttal to the argument "What if a young woman aborts a baby who would have gone on to become a doctor and find the cure for cancer?" A rejoinder is, "What if a young woman who would have gone on to become a doctor and find the cure for cancer dies in childbirth?

Michael Shermer

#2. A cynic once told G. K. Chesterton, the British novelist and essayist, "Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall not be disappointed." Chesterton's rejoinder? "Blessed is he who expecteth nothing, for he shall enjoy everything.

Benjamin Graham

#3. By every law of nature and sex a kiss was the only rejoinder that fitted the mood and the moment, under the suasion of which Sue's undemonstrative regard of him might not inconceivably have changed its temperature.

Thomas Hardy

#4. I understand Mother's need, whatever she might say on the phone, what she really wants is to hear, before she closes her eyes, the voice of someone who loves her. Love is at last, our only rejoinder to darkness.

Scott Russell Sanders

#5. Capote's rejoinder to Kerouac's assertion that he never needed to edit his work ... But, that's not writing . That's typing.

Truman Capote

#6. Capote's rejoinder to the Kerouac assertion that he never needed to edit his writing: "That's not writing .That's typing.

Joseph Cavano

#7. Miles wanted to snap out a sharp rejoinder, but shivered instead. I miss Bothari, too. He had almost forgotten how much, till Ivan's words hit the scar of his regret, that secret little pocket of anguish that never seemed to drain.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#8. With all the insolence she swallowed, it was a wonder her corsets still laced. Retort after rejoinder after sharp-edged remark: Why do you address me? What can I possibly have to say to a man who would split a pair of fives? Be quiet. Go to sleep. Go away. Come back when you have another erection.

Cecilia Grant

#9. Whole phases of comedy have become empty; the comic rejoinder has become every man's tool.

Constance Rourke

#10. Sharon was a realist. He recognized, as did Ben-Gurion and Dayan, that the Arabs had as legitimate a claim to this land as we did, and that they possessed pride and courage and anger, against which no rejoinder existed except the sword.

Steven Pressfield

#11. As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the Ocean:
"Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner concealer revelator. Look at it, rising up and rising down, taking everything with it."
"What's that?" Anna asked.
"Water," the Dutchman said. "Well, and time.

John Green

#12. efforts demonstrated that he had little facility for writing propaganda or even for communicating with a broad audience. No rejoinder was more learned than his treatises, but none was so unreadable.

John Ferling

#13. I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Oliver Goldsmith

#14. The Victorian Age, for all its humbug, was a period of rapid progress, because men were dominated by hope rather than fear. If we are again to have progress, we must again be dominated by hope.

Bertrand Russell

#15. The will is stronger than anything else. Everything must go down before the will, for it comes from God. A pure and strong will is omnipotent.

Swami Vivekananda

#16. Nothing worth doing's ever easy.

Tammy J. Coulter

#17. I am a firm believer that the Lord sometimes has to short-circuit even our best plans for our benefit.

Tony Dungy

#18. chief executive of Google, reckoned in 2010 that about five exabytes of data, or the equivalent of 250,000 years of DVD-quality video, was created in the world every two days. By some estimates, in 2013 we will create that much data every 10 minutes.

Portfolio Penguin

#19. God works through life, through people, and through physical, tangible, and material reality to communicate his healing presence in our lives.

Robert E. Webber

#20. it's like being attacked by a RAT!

Chaucer Geoffrey